This volume offers an in-depth review of market conditions and insolvency case developments in key countries around the world. A debt of gratitude is owed to the outstanding professionals the world over who dedicated their time and talents to this book. This book is a significant undertaking because of the current coverage of developments we seek to provide. As always, the hope is that this year’s volume will help all of us, authors and readers alike, reflect on the larger picture, keeping our eye on likely, as well as necessary, developments, both on the near and distant horizons.

Overviews

Editor’s Preface

Donald S Bernstein, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Countries

Australia

Austria

Brazil

Canada

England & Wales

France

Germany

Greece

Hong Kong

Hungary

India

Ireland

Isle of Man

Italy

Luxembourg

Mexico

Netherlands

Poland

Russia

Singapore

Spain

Switzerland

Thailand

United States

Donald S Bernstein, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Donald S Bernstein, co-head of Davis Polk’s insolvency and restructuring group, is recognised as one of the leading insolvency lawyers in the world. He was elected by his peers as the chair of the National Bankruptcy Conference and is a commissioner on the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11, Chair and President of the International Insolvency Institute and a member of the legal advisory panel of the Financial Stability Board. Mr Bernstein’s practice includes representing debtors, creditors, receivers and acquirers in corporate restructurings and insolvencies. In addition, he heads the group’s multi-team representation of global financial institutions in connection with the ‘living wills’ required to be submitted to financial regulators pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act.

Outside the firm, Mr Bernstein is a member of the editorial board of Collier on Bankruptcy, the treatise on US bankruptcy law.